Hohlt is also the leader of a group of Washington, DC insiders called the "Off the Record Club" and is known as an "information broker" in political circles. Other members of this club include lobbyists Ken Duberstein, Charlie Black and Vin Weber. They have been known to host Karl Rove and Joshua Bolten on occasion at these social gatherings. Hohlt has been referred to as a regular background source of information for Robert Novak and other journalists. He was recently cited as an important contact in the perjury trial of Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Novak testified that after writing his article that outed Valerie Plame, he sent a preview copy to Hohlt. Hohlt has acknowledged that he then faxed it to Rove.[2]

During his testimony at the Lewis Libby trial, Novak named Richard Hohlt as a primary and often-used source. Newsweek contributor Michael Isikoff reported that Novak gave Hohlt an advance copy of Novak's article "outing" Valerie Plame, which Hohlt then passed on to Karl Rove in advance of the article's publication.